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Originally Posted by ryaneogilvie
SpaceX has many amazing projects...
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Ryan,
Three examples of cool things we've done in the past week:
1: We launched another mission to re-supply the International Space Station, and berthed with ISS at 6:09AM PDT Sunday morning. Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnf0GArEDsI
2: For the first time in history,
the first stage autonomously flew itself back to Earth. For safety reasons, we did this in the middle of the ocean, but we have telemetry that shows that it landed gently in the ocean and stayed vertical for eight seconds before it went horizontal. We're doing stuff that was formally science fiction. Info here:
http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/03/3...ulti-planetary
3. Our last grasshopper flight demonstrated that the new F9R (for reusable) landing legs work very well. Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjWqQPWmsY
Yes, we have some amazing projects :-)
-Kevin